In The Wild South Coast Mountains

ARTHUR UPFIELD fans who admire this author’s painless way of presenting Australian

background. Srtll probably do a

double-take when they read his intpst mvsterv Bony and the Kelly latest mybLciof, y Gansr - The locale for this story will seem completely un-Australian to overseas readers who are more used to his sleuth, Napoleon Bonaparte, going through his paces in the arid twk outoac .

Nonethless, the country ne a cribes in this book the seawa fall of the mountains just sout Sydney—are far more typical oi tne Australia most Australians wiow than any part of “Out West . inose who know this particular area well can almost pick the Cork Valley oi thp book Author Upfield. Of course, now lives in that area himself, just

as, in his youth, he lived in the Outback.

But you couldn’t say that Up- Trahans rese mblance to thenSo£stronger resemoiance to tne moon shme-makmg McCoys of the wild Kentucky mountains.

Running sly-grog, it’s called in Australia, but whether there’s the fortune to be made out of it that Upfield would have us believe is doubtful. w , Bony, the part-aboriginal Detective-Inspector, became in terested the inhabitants of Cork Valley when an excise officer dis appeared. He joins the Kelly gang disguised as a horse-thief and spud digger and a good time is had by a p before the curtain is rung down with a solution, (bony and the kelly gang. pUb lished by Heinemann. Australian price, IV-.)